2 Peter 1:10

Therefore, friends, do your best to put God’s call and selection of you beyond all doubt; for, if you do this, you will never fall.

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In The King James Version

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

In Context

9Surely the person who has not these virtues is shortsighted even to blindness, and has chosen to forget that they have been purified from their sins of the past!

11For in this way you will be given a triumphant admission into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

Psalms 15:5whose money is lent without interest, and never takes a bribe to hurt the innocent. The person who does these things will always stand firm.

Psalms 62:2Yes, he is my rock, my help, my retreat, I shall not be shaken too sorely.

Psalms 112:6For they will never be shaken; the just will be forever remembered.

Matthew 7:24“Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts on it may be compared to a prudent person, who built their house on the rock.

Acts 20:24But I count my life of no value to myself, if only I may complete the course marked out for me, and the task that was allotted me by the Lord Jesus – which was to declare the good news of the love of God.

Matthew Henry on 2 Peter 1:6-12

Spiritual Diligence; Advancement in Holiness. ( a. d. 67.) 5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see… Read the whole commentary →

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